But Sam Allardyce slammed referee Anthony Taylor and his officials after his side were denied a point.

Taylor overruled his assistant Stuart Burt to allow West Ham's leveller to stand before awarding Liverpool a controversial second spot-kick for an alleged Adrian foul on Jon Flanagan.

Allardyce said: "We don't want to be talking about the decisions of the officials, but, unfortunately, it seems to pop up rather too regularly for me. Evening itself doesn't work for me.

"There were two decisions today - one goes against Liverpool and one goes against us and it ends up with controversy, frustration, aggravation from the players, losing their cool because of the management of the officials and them not being quite up to the level you expect."